THE BANDED STENOCORUS. 
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slender and tapering, sometimes of moderate length, some¬ 
times excessively long, especially in the males ; the thorax 
is longer and more convex than in the preceding family, not 
thin-edged, hut often rounded at the sides. 
Some of these beetles, distinguished by their narrow wing- 
covers, which are notched or armed with two little thorns at 
the tip, and by the great length of their antennae, belong to 
the genus Stenocorus, a name signifying narrow or straitened. 
One of them, which is 
rare here, inhabits the 
hickory, in its laiwa state 
forming long galleries in 
the trunk of this tree in 
the direction of the fibres 
of the wood. This beetle 
is the Stenocorus (^Ceras- 
phorus) cinctus,^ or band¬ 
ed Stenocorus (Fig 46). 
It is of a hazel color, with 
a tint of gray, arising from 
the short hairs with which 
it is covered ; there is an 
oblique ochre-yellow band 
across each Aving-cover ; and a short spine or thorn on the 
middle of each side of the thorax. The antennae of the 
males are more than tAvice the length of the body, Avhich 
measures fi’om three quarters of an inch to one inch and one 
quarter in length. 
The ground beneath black and AAdiite oaks is often ob- 
serA^ed to be streAvn AAuth small branches, neatlv seA^ered from 
these trees as if cut off Avith a saw. Upon splitting open the 
cut end of a branch, in the autumn or Avinter after it has 
fallen, it Avill be found to be perforated to the extent of six 
or eight inches in the course of the pith, and a slender grub, 
the author of the mischief, Avill be discoA^ered therein. In 
* Cerambyx cinctus, Drurju Stenocorus garganicus, Fabricius. 
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